[Corpora-List] COLL: PAC2012 Toulouse: Programme and registration

Tue Jan 31 22:36:19 UTC 2012

PAC 2012. The Phonology of Contemporary English: Variation and change.

The conference will take place from Wednesday, 29th February (starting
in the early afternoon) to Friday, 2nd March (late afternoon).

We are pleased to inform you that you may now register and will find
all necessary information concerning the conference and your stay in
Toulouse on the new PAC website at

http://www.projet-pac.net

Just click on the link which is provided on our website, or go to the
university's registration website at

http://w3.colloquescprs.univ-tlse2.fr/spip.php?rubrique50&lang=en

Should you need any further information, please let us know by sending
an email to anne.przewozny at univ-tlse2.fr or steven.moore at univ-tlse2.fr.

If you wish to participate, you can also contact the very friendly
members of our Research Promotion Centre (CPRS cprs at univ-tlse2.fr) who
are in charge of registrations and organization.

With our best wishes,

Anne Przewozny-Desriaux and Steve Moore.

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GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE

All papers focusing on the main theme summarized by the title of the
conference are welcome but, to contextualize this forthcoming event,
participants should be aware that PAC 2012 is a logical extension of
the open workshops that the PAC project has organized annually since
2000, on a European level, at the universities of Toulouse II,
Montpellier III and Aix- Marseille I, and reflects the developing
activities of this project.

The PAC project (Phonologie de l?Anglais Contemporain: usages,
variétés et structure - The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage,
varieties and structure) is coordinated by Jacques Durand (University
of Toulouse II) and Philip Carr (University of Montpellier III). The
main aims of the project can be summarized as follows: to give a
better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity
(geographical, social and stylistic); to test phonological and
phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making
room for the systematic study of variation; to favour communication
between specialists in speech and in phonological theory; to provide
corpus-based data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of
English as a foreign language.

To achieve these goals, the cornerstone of the PAC project is the
creation of a corpus of oralEnglish, coming from a wide variety of
linguistic areas in the English-speaking world (such as Great Britain:
Received Pronunciation, Lancashire, York, Ayrshire, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, West Midlands: Birmingham, Black Country ; Republic of
Ireland: Limerick, Cork ; Canada: Alberta, Ontario ; Australia: New
South Wales ; New Zealand: Christchurch, Dunedin ; India: Delhi
English, Mumbai ; USA: California, West Texas, Saint Louis, Boston,
North Carolina). The protocol used is the same throughout and was
inspired by the classical methodology of William Labov. Although
significant corpora of oral English already exist, many of them have
been conceived along exclusively sociolinguistic rather than
explicitly phonological lines. In other cases, hardly any information
is available on speakers beyond gender and regional affiliation.
Furthermore, few corpora are based upon a single methodology
permitting a fully comparative analysis of the data. The approach
chosen by the PAC project is modeled on the French PFC project (La
Phonologie du Français Contemporain, coord. M.-H. Côté (Ottawa
University), J. Durand, B. Laks (Paris X) and C. Lyche (Oslo/Tromsø),
http://www.projet-pfc.net/). This parent project has demonstrated how
a corpus which was originally conceived for phonology can lend itself
to many other types of linguistic exploitation: the lexicon,
morpho-syntax, prosody, pragmatics, dialectology, sociolinguistics and
interaction.

All contributions on the phonology and phonetics of contemporary
English are welcome. Other things being equal, papers with a focus on
variation and change within a corpus approach will be given priority.
Plenary sessions will alternate with shorter oral presentations along
with swift, five-minute presentations to accompany posters presented,
in our two Speed Postering sessions. A PAC workshop will form part of
the general programme of the conference. Papers are expected to be
delivered in English.

INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Felicity Cox (Macquarie University, Australia)
Ulrike Gut (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Nicolas Ballier (University of Paris VII, France)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Maciej Baranowski, University of Manchester, England
Joan C. Beal, Sheffield University
Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, University of Manchester, England
Phil Carr, EMMA, University of Montpellier III, France
Jacques Durand, CLLE-ERSS, University of Toulouse II, France
Colleen Fitzgerald, University of Texas Arlington, USA
Jean-Michel Fournier, University of Tours, France
Heinz Giegerich, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Michael T. Hammond, University of Arizona, USA
Sophie Herment, University of Aix-Marseille I, France
Daniel Hirst, University of Aix-Marseille I, France
Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Wyn Johnson, University of Essex, England
Mariko Kondo, University of Waseda, Japan
Christiane Migette, University of Paris XIII, France
Monika Pukli, University of Strasbourg, France
Gabor Turcsan, University of Aix-Marseille I, France
Jørgen Staun, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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